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Ice Cube Responds to Katt Williams’ Claim Comedian Pushed to Remove Rape Scene in ‘Friday After Next’
Katt Williams generated a lot of headlines after taking shots at a number of celebrities — from Cedric the Entertainer and Kevin Hart to Steve Harvey — while on Shannon Sharpe’s Club Shay Shay podcast. Among the many claims also included the comedian insisting he pushed for the removal of a rape scene in Friday After Next. And now Ice Cube is weighing in.
The “Bow Down” rapper and star of the Marcus Raboy-directed comedy took to X (formerly Twitter) on Friday and posted a 9-minute video refuting Williams’ claim about the so-called rape scene. While on Club Shay Shay, Williams claimed that the original script called for his character, Money Mike, to film a rape scene after Terry Crews’ character, Damon, corners him in the bathroom. Williams insisted he pushed for the removal of the scene.
“The problem with Friday After Next is we’re trying to make a classic comedy,” Williams said on the podcast, “and this comedy involves a rape, and rape is never funny no matter who it happens to or what the circumstances are.”
The comedian insisted that he told filmmakers, “If you would allow me, allow us to do this movie without a Black man getting raped in it. I promise you it will be twice as funny.”
Williams went on to claim that he essentially risked his career by standing up to the powers that be to scrap the scene.
“Katt Williams had to take the risk in front of the studios and the cast and the powers that be, in his very first movie, and say, ‘Respectfully, humbly, guys, if we’re talking about anything else, I have no credibility and I have no pull, but we’re talking about comedy, where I have all the credibility and all the pull,’” he said.
Ice Cube, who also wrote the script, sought to clarify Williams’ comments.
“I would never shoot a rape scene in a movie, especially like Friday,” he said. “That ain’t my style. If you check out any of my movies, they’re not raunchy. We did a movie called The Players Club. The subject matter is a little raunchy but for the most part even that we left it to your imagination.”
He added, “The plier joke [in Friday After Next] was always in the script. We would never, ever show that. That’s not my style if you look at any of my movies. So, that was never a discussion.”
Ice Cube said discussions with actors about a script change can happen “to a certain extent, but we weren’t going to change the movie for any actor.”
“We do what we feel,” he continued, “and if it was a rape scene it woulda been in the movie. There was no reason not to shoot it. But that’s not my style. I don’t even like that kind of s**t in movies. And so, that was, to me, a little discrepancy there.”